Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-25 Thread Tom H
>> >> You can cnahe the UUID of any ext partition with >> > cnahe??? >> It is Sunday and my first weekend off in a few weeks so my fingers are >> on holiday... > Yes - excuse accepted.  But that still leaves the question marks.  Is it meant > to be "change"??  I never have been good at anagrams

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-24 22:40, Lubos Rendek wrote: Hi Paul, For me, linux device names have become very intuitive. Certainly more intuitive than UUIDs. I've been thinking about UUIDs for a little over a week. To me, the idea of UUIDs suffers from a great excess of pseudo-intellectual baggage. A conventio

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-24 Thread Lubos Rendek
Hi Paul, > For me, linux device names have become very intuitive. Certainly more > intuitive than UUIDs. I've been thinking about UUIDs for a little over > a week. To me, the idea of UUIDs suffers from a great excess of > pseudo-intellectual baggage. A convention for naming things that is > delibe

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100322_175115, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-22 17:05, Paul E Condon wrote: > [snip] > > > >You answered my question --- I didn't know about blkid utility. > >With this one can give every partition a meaningful labels like --- > > > >LABEL="hda1" > > > >or whatever is displayed as the system

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-23 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 21 March 2010 22:52:59 Tom H wrote: > >> You can cnahe the UUID of any ext partition with > > > > cnahe??? > > It is Sunday and my first weekend off in a few weeks so my fingers are > on holiday... Yes - excuse accepted. But that still leaves the question marks. Is it meant to be "cha

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-23 Thread Lubos Rendek
Hi there are couple ways on how to retrieve UUID but all of then are essentially accessing the same information you already have with your ls command. Try here: http://www.linuxconfig.org/how-to-retrieve-and-change-partitions-universally-unique-identifier-uuid-on-linux for more info... lubo On

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-22 19:39, Tom H wrote: I'd want *proof* (i.e., booting into different distros) that different mkswap invocations generate different UUIDs. I have no idea what proof I can provide except to say that I have been caught by that. I installed a second distribution and I could either n

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:51:15 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-22 17:05, Paul E Condon wrote: >> cmpq:~# blkid >> /dev/hda1: UUID="990189bc-f7ce-41a6-9d8f-64a35349875e" TYPE="ext3" >> /dev/hda2: LABEL="HDA2" UUID="5a02e986-8aa3-4790-aa3f-41f7f565533f" >> TYPE="ext3" >> /dev/hda3: LABE

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-22 Thread Tom H
>>> I'd want *proof* (i.e., booting into different distros) that different >>> mkswap invocations generate different UUIDs. >> I have no idea what proof I can provide except to say that I have been >> caught by that. >> I installed a second distribution and I could either not prevent it >> from r

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-22 17:05, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] You answered my question --- I didn't know about blkid utility. With this one can give every partition a meaningful labels like --- LABEL="hda1" or whatever is displayed as the system device one one runs blkid without options in order to get

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100322_020950, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-21 23:51, Paul E Condon wrote: > >On 20100321_181749, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 2010-03-21 17:52, Tom H wrote: > >>*You* should not need to set the UUID. It should just magically be > >>there. > >>$ /sbin/blkid -t TYPE=swap > >>/d

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 23:51, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20100321_181749, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-21 17:52, Tom H wrote: *You* should not need to set the UUID. It should just magically be there. $ /sbin/blkid -t TYPE=swap /dev/sdb1: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap1" \ UUID="c69f59ff-b928-4232-b44c-8da0f12c5

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100321_181749, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-21 17:52, Tom H wrote: > *You* should not need to set the UUID. It should just magically be > there. > $ /sbin/blkid -t TYPE=swap > /dev/sdb1: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap1" \ > UUID="c69f59ff-b928-4232-b44c-8da0f12c52db" > > > >>>

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 18:26, Tom H wrote: I'd want *proof* (i.e., booting into different distros) that different mkswap invocations generate different UUIDs. I have no idea what proof I can provide except to say that I have been caught by that. I installed a second distribution and I could either not

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-21 Thread Tom H
> I'd want *proof* (i.e., booting into different distros) that different > mkswap invocations generate different UUIDs. I have no idea what proof I can provide except to say that I have been caught by that. I installed a second distribution and I could either not prevent it from running mkswap or

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 17:52, Tom H wrote: *You* should not need to set the UUID. It should just magically be there. $ /sbin/blkid -t TYPE=swap /dev/sdb1: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap1" \ UUID="c69f59ff-b928-4232-b44c-8da0f12c52db" You can cnahe the UUID of any ext partition with cnahe??? It is Sunday

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-21 Thread Tom H
>>> *You* should not need to set the UUID.  It should just magically be >>> there. >>> $ /sbin/blkid -t TYPE=swap >>> /dev/sdb1: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap1" \ >>> UUID="c69f59ff-b928-4232-b44c-8da0f12c52db" >> You can cnahe the UUID of any ext partition with > cnahe??? It is Sunday and my first we

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 10:42, Tom H wrote: [snip] *You* should not need to set the UUID. It should just magically be there. $ /sbin/blkid -t TYPE=swap /dev/sdb1: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap1" \ UUID="c69f59ff-b928-4232-b44c-8da0f12c52db" You can cnahe the UUID of any ext partition with cnahe??? tune2

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-21 Thread Tom H
Recent udev packges in squeeze/sid lack vol_id command since 22 Aug 2009 (146-1).  What is the best way to obtain UUID of partition? I could read it like ... $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid|grep sda4 Is this the best way?  Any thoughts ? >>> blkid >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 07:03, Arthur Marsh wrote: Constantine wrote, on 05/03/10 23:24: blkid On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, Recent udev packges in squeeze/sid lack vol_id command since 22 Aug 2009 (146-1). What is the best way to obtain UUID of partition? I could read it li

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
Constantine wrote, on 05/03/10 23:24: blkid On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, Recent udev packges in squeeze/sid lack vol_id command since 22 Aug 2009 (146-1). What is the best way to obtain UUID of partition? I could read it like ... $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid|grep sda

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-05 Thread Constantine
blkid On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > Recent udev packges in squeeze/sid lack vol_id command since 22 Aug 2009 > (146-1). What is the best way to obtain UUID of partition? > > I could read it like ... > > $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid|grep sda4 > > Is this the best way?

How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Recent udev packges in squeeze/sid lack vol_id command since 22 Aug 2009 (146-1). What is the best way to obtain UUID of partition? I could read it like ... $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid|grep sda4 Is this the best way? Any thoughts ? Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l